Éminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France - Softcover

Blanchard, Jean-Vincent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802778526 ISBN 13: 9780802778529

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Chief Minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the seventeenth century and the force behind the nation's rise as a European power. One of the first statesmen to clearly understand the necessity of a balance of powers, he has captured the imagination of generations, both through the story of his life and through Alexandre Dumas's portrayal of him as a ruthless political mastermind in the classic The Three Musketeers.

Jean-Vincent Blanchard's rich and insightful new biography brings Richelieu fully to life in all his complexity. His careful understanding of politics as spectacle speaks to contemporary readers; much of what he accomplished was promoted strategically through his great passion for theater and literature. ƒminence offers a rich portrait of a fascinating man and his era, and gives us a keener understanding of the dark art of politics.

"Blanchard's captivating biography vividly captures the rise to power of a seminal figure who was instrumental in creating France as we know it."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Lovers of intrigue and derring-do will enjoy Jean-Vincent Blanchard's Eminence ... [His] lively style will appeal to general readers, while history buffs will appreciate his careful footnotes and plethora of primary sources."-The Baltimore Sun

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jean-Vincent Blanchard is an associate professor of French literature and politics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. He has published on a broad range of subjects in politics, history, religion, philosophy, and the arts. This is his first book published in English.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0802778526
• ISBN 13: 9780802778529
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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